Proof of the Trinity Error

The fact that the Scriptures demonstrate Moses is referring to the Father in this verse and the fact that this verse excludes anyone else from being identified as the one God Yahweh, proves that only the Father is the one true God. In other words, Moses is excluding everyone from being identified as God except the One who spoke out of the fire to Israel and that One is identified by the Scriptures as the Father.

The Evidence

1. The One who spoke out of the Fire

Whoever Moses is talking about is the One who spoke to Israel out of the fire.

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown that you might know that YAHWEH, He is God; there is no other besides Him. Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that YAHWEH, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:33-39.

2. The One who spoke out of the Fire promised to raise up the prophet Jesus

YAHWEH your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers, you shall listen to him. This is according to all that you asked of YAHWEH your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die." YAHWEH said to me, `They have spoken well. `I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.' Deuteronomy 18:15-18.

The One who spoke out of the fire is the same identity who promised to raise up the prophet. The incident where God speaks out of the fire to Israel is found at Exodus 20 where He gives them the Law and they beg God not to speak directly to them anymore for fear they would die.

3. The One who spoke out of the fire is the Father of Jesus.

Peter quotes Deuteronomy 18:15 and shows us that the One who spoke out of the fire on the mountain and promised to raise up the prophet is the Father who sent his servant Jesus:

Moses said, "The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from your brethren as he raised me up. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.' And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your fathers, saying to Abraham, "And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' God, having raised up his servant/son (pais), sent him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness." Acts 3:22-26.

The Scriptures provide ample evidence which shows it was the Father who sent his servant Jesus, the Father who raised up Jesus to be a prophet in Israel. Therefore it is the Father who promised to raise up the prophet Jesus and sent him to Israel first. And since it is the Father who made this promise then it is the Father who spoke out of the fire to Israel.

The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers, you shall listen to him. This is according to all that you asked of the LORD your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, "Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die." The LORD said to me, `They have spoken well. `I will raise up a prophet from among their brothers like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.' Deuteronomy 18:15-18. Deut 18:15-18.

4. There is no other but the Father

And so now we know who spoke out of the fire to Israel. It was the the Father who spoke out of the fire to them and so it was necessarily the Father who promised them to raise up the prophet Jesus. And Moses tells us there is no other God but the One who spoke out of the fire. There is no other but the Father.

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived? Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown that you might know that YAHWEH, He is God; there is no other besides Him. Out of the heavens He let you hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He let you see His great fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire. Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their descendants after them. And He personally brought you from Egypt by His great power, driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today. Know therefore today, and take it to your heart, that YAHWEH, He is God in heaven above and on the earth below; there is no other.

Conclusion

The Scriptures demonstrate that the One who spoke out of the fire to Israel is very the same identity and speaker who promised to raise up the prophet Jesus. Peter shows us that was God the Father who raised up the prophet Jesus, the Father who sent His servant-son Jesus. And Moses tells us that no one else is God except the One who spoke out of the fire. Since the Scriptures postively identify the One who spoke out of the fire as the Father, and since Moses declares that only the One who spoke out of the fire is the one God, then Only the Father is the one true God.

Created: August 25, 2012
Last Updated: January 8, 2014